Contagious category: 114 books

Since infection control requirements vary by agency type, local regulations, department size, etc., emergency response organizations cannot simply adopt a generic infection control program as their program. Therefore, this Guide is designed as a resource to help emergency response organizations tailor...

This vital guide from the CDC and WHO, converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction, provides critically important information about procedures for preventing the transmission of VHFs. In Africa, viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) include Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Marburg and...

This fifth edition of the dMAC Digest analyses the current information on MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a severe pneumonia-like respiratory disease caused by a virus. It has an extremely high death rate among confirmed sufferers and we check the latest data on infection and death by country....

How To Get Rid of Mucus Whether it's in your nose, ears, chest or throat, mucous can be incredibly debilitating. If you have had mucous for an extended period of time and it doesn't seem to be improving, see your doctor. You may have a chronic issue that require medical treatment. If there...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a tick-borne bacterial disease that affects the cells in the lining of your blood vessels, making the vessels leak. This can eventually cause serious damage to internal organs, particularly your kidneys. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

Somebody in America is infected with the hepatitis C virus every three minutes. That is 20 people every hour, almost 180,000 people per year. Of these, roughly one-quarter cases are diagnosed each year. Those individuals who are diagnosed may feel as if they are sliding off the edge of their old...

How did small pox have a tremendous effect on two distinct periods of war—one in which the disease devastated entire native armies and leadership, and the other in which technological advancements and the application of medical knowledge concerning the disease preserved an army and as a result changed...

Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World...

While the devastating Ebola epidemic has been contained, the effects of this outbreak—referred to by the World Health Organization as "the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times"—have wreaked a tremendous emotional toll on the populations of West Africa as well...

The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. The transition of healthcare delivery from primarily acute care hospitals to other healthcare settings (e.g.,...

This is the story of a child who unknowingly participated in a very important chapter of Canadian history, a painful chapter that taught Michael and hundreds of thousands of others like him in North America how it was indeed possible to survive and thrive after a potentially deadly disease left them...

This eBook might be one of the shortest book, you have ever read; however, it may be one of the most important, that is, if you have been fighting nail fungus for years without succeeding. According to my research, nail fungus also medically known as onychomycosis, is very common problem. Because...

The summer of 2012 may go down in record or be remembered as the United States worst outbreak of the West Nile virus ever. Health experts have said that with record number of new cases, 1200, that measures need to be taken to reduce the transmission to humans. Included in the 1200 that have become...

Know when to call your doctor—and when it's safe to treat your child at home! Caring for your sick child can be a daunting experience. You want to ensure the best for him or her, but you also know that every illness doesn't require a trip to the doctor's office or emergency room. So how do you know...